Work in Progress Seminars

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Convened by Dr Jessica Frazier.

This series of regular seminars brings together scholars and students working on Indic philosophies and religions. It focuses on topics of current research: in each session, two people will present a context they are investigating for 20min, and then open it for discussion on key questions. All researchers, graduates and finalists in all areas are welcome to join. All events are in the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS) Library, 15 Magdalen Street, OX1 3AE.

Abstracts for the talks are available here.

Hilary Term 2025 Schedule:

  • Week 6 (Wednesday 26 February, 2:30pm-4pm)
    • Riccardo Paccagnella (Oxford): 'Do Debates Have Prerequisites?'
    • Anthony Ruda (Oxford): 'Another Look at Alokākāśa'
  • Week 7 (Wednesday 5 March, 2:30pm-4pm)
    • Dr Jack Beaulieu (Oxford): 'Udayana on Familiar Epistemic Situations'
    • Jacob Parkinson (Oxford): 'Relishing In-Itself and For-Itself: A Problem of Interpretation in Abhinavagupta.'

Organised by Philiminality Oxford. Convened by Julius Geißler, Laura Cleveland Andersen and Kassandra Dugi.
 
The Philiminality Oxford Work-in-progress Seminar for Cross-cultural Philosophy (POWSCP) seeks to offer graduate students working on liminal philosophies an opportunity to present their current work to Oxford‘s interdisciplinary graduate community. This termly seminar aims to be a place for the fruitful exchange of philosophical ideas across diverse traditions, speakers are therefore not only invited to receive feedback from an assigned graduate commentator and the audience but also encouraged to participate in a short roundtable discussion with the other speakers and commentators after the talks.
 
Trinity Term 2024 Schedule:
  • Week 5 (Monday 20 May, 4pm-6pm): Free Will and Agency

    • Prerita Govil: 'Am I an Agent: The Nature of Action According to Pāṇini and the Naiyayikas'

    • Kassandra Dugi: 'Intention, Agency and Causation in Chapter 6 of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra'

      • Respondent: Oliver Thomson

More information, including talk abstracts, can be found here.